49ers and Raiders: Myles Jack might be the best fit for both of them, but he’s risky, and likely will end up with neither

* OK, first, on the endlessly bizarre Anthony Davis/49ers Twitter saga: I don’t know specifically what’s happening between this oddball player and these oddball team executives, but it’s safe to conclude that this is just one more example of an uncommunicative, uncooperative, unstable team managing to make everything more complicated than it needs to be.

GM Trent Baalke isn’t a people person. At all. He’s horrendous at communicating with 99.9% of human beings, with the exception of all humans named York, who perpetually stand by his side in all matters.

I don’t quite get it, but seems like Trent’s special kind of gritted-teeth-loner-hostility is exactly suited for Jed York’s neurotic insularity. At least for now.

They both can’t stand practically everybody but themselves, they tell each other how smart they are, they get themselves into cold wars with all kinds of people (Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick, Greg Roman, many former team execs, some Santa Clara politicians, their own PSL-holders, and many, many, many others)…

And obviously probably aren’t in love with Davis–who retired last season and then suggested publicly he was coming back for 2016 but has delayed that and now is complaining about the 49ers on Twitter.

Hey, I’m actually sympathetic to Baalke on this one. (Please alert TB. This is possible.)

How is he supposed to count on Davis when the guy quit football for a year and now hasn’t actually shown up or applied for reinstatement but finds the time to rip the GM?

But Davis tipped off this wouldn’t be easy by not showing up at the first OTAs last week. It’s never easy with him. Baalke knows this.

And Baalke could’ve simplified everything by telling Davis to file for reinstatement and report by the 1st OTA or the 49ers will give up rights–or waive him the moment he files for reinstatement.

Davis didn’t want to play football last year. That’s sort of a tip-off that you can’t count on him the following season. It’s pretty clear Baalke is tired of him.

So what do the 49ers really lose by saying buh-bye to Davis, even if he decides to play in 2016? The chance to possibly trade him for a conditional 6th-rounder? That’s worth all this? Really?

This whole episode is symptomatic of a franchise that continues to try to have it both ways in all things and never actually gets anything out of it, but keeps repeating the empty process.

They wanted to keep Davis’ rights but also keep him at arms’ length. They wanted his value, but they didn’t want to actually do the work to deal with him (and I understand that’s probably too much work).

None of it has worked, just the same way it didn’t work when Jed York plotted against Harbaugh in 2014 while also hoping Harbaugh could get the most out of that team for that one season, just the same way it didn’t work when York decided to blow up Kaepernick to his national media pals and now wonders why he can’t get a good trade deal for him.

Just the same way the Yorks and Baalke thought they could hire Adam Gase and also reward Jim Tomsula with the defensive coordinator’s job… except Gase said nope, no way, I’m outta here.

This doesn’t work. Yet the 49ers keep doing it and Anthony Davis is a headache no doubt but he’s also just another manifestation of the most uncommunicative, uncooperative and unstable franchise in the world right now.

* UCLA LB Myles Jack really seems like the perfect Baalke pick at No. 7 today, though maybe even Baalke can’t accept the risk of taking somebody with clear medical issues with such a high pick.

I suspect Baalke wants to take Jack, is trying to convince himself to do it… but might end up passing on him at 7… or maybe trying to trade back a few slots to take Jack at a more palatable slot, maybe 10-13.

But I’m not sure that can work–I think someody in that 10-13 range is just going to want to take Jack, and the trade just won’t materialize for Baalke.

Which isn’t terrible for him, IMO, because if he just stays at 7 and bypasses Jack he still might have a very good tackle sitting there for him, either Ole Miss’ Laremy Tunsil or Notre Dame’s Ronnie Stanley. And the Yorks do love those Notre Dame products.

But I also think Baalke wants to get back into the bottom of the first round so he can get a QB he likes–and everything I know about Baalke tells me that would be Michigan State’s Connor Cook.

Maybe he moves back to try to get Jack and Cook, maybe he just takes an OT and bundles up some of his extra picks to get back into the 1st for Cook (or theoretically, Paxton Lynch)… but I do think Baalke’s going to need to do some maneuvering tonight to get that QB, if he can.

* I also think Jack would be a very good fit for the Raiders with their 14th pick.

In fact, the idea of Jack racing around in the middle of the Raiders D like a young Patrick Willis probably fits the Raiders better than it fits the current 49ers, who are absolutely not one player away from a strong playoff run.

But as I just ran though, I don’t think he’ll get to 14… unless those medicals on Jack’s knee are just too scary for everybody.

And I don’t see Reggie McKenzie moving up to 8-12 to make sure he gets Jack–medical risks are guys you take at your slot if he’s there, not guys you necessarily sacrifice extra picks to select.

So I’d think McKenzie sits at 14 and waits to see who’s there, and I am guessing at this point it’ll be one of the top cornerbacks–Florida’s Vernon Hargraeves, Houston’s William Jackson, or Ohio State’s Eli Apple.

I’ll go ahead and just say Apple, though he might be not be the slickest CB out there–he’s big, and the Raiders scheme is supposed to be built around big CBs.